If you've ever watched his show on the science channel, he never really explains how his ideas are supposed to work, and they seem to universally rely on *some_magical_unknown_element*.

There was an episode where he tried to discuss light-sabers where he described a frame made out of cermet that basically served as a gas pipe to vent heated plasma. He then went to say that the power source would be "some kind of super-awesome-nano-manufactured-battery".

His first mistake with this is that it wouldn't even be a light-saber, as that would use a laser (light) to create the "blade". His other mistake is using "unobtainium" to make his "theories" work by saying "Oh, all you have to do is fit a nuclear power plant into a D-Cell alkaline battery!"

Actually, I think this is maybe the 2nd article I've seen where Google found something on the market to be malware - the other one being a proof of concept somebody put on there months back to see how many people would download it.

The majority of the articles you see mention "On 3rd party Market sites" - in other words, its the same old "warez" situation with Windows or any other OS. Cheap college kid or cheap person in general wants newly released app or game that normally costs $x.xx or $xx.xx amount of money, such as Photoshop - but because they don't want to pay for it, they pirate it from wherever they can even if it's obviously a "questionable" site, not thinking about the malware packaged in with it.

What I'm hoping is that once they fully drop mail order DVD's (they've already said they will), Netflix will have the extra cash to purchase more titles for instant streaming and at a faster rate.

As a side note - it may be the PS3 not being powerful enough for the Netflix streaming app, the app itself sucks, or something else - but it gets worse about updating what you have in your queue (say if you finish a show and remove it) when you have over a 100 shows in the instant queue (I've got about 140 right now).

Or, since they said it is a package, you could just uninstall the package...

Really this isn't much new - Fedora and Debian have had things like these... Debian's is called Popularity Contest, and Fedora is looking at doing the same though I could have sworn they already had that in Fedora...

Just checked out the Wikipedia page for SugarCRM to find out what it is - the whole page is written like a marketing pamphlet where the drone that went and put the page together sat down with a thesaurus and changed literally every other word just to make the Wikipedia article sound fancier.

2.5 to 3 year old Gateway E-100m type laptop.

12" screen size, Core Solo U1300, 1GB of RAM, Intel 945GM graphics, Intel 3945 b/g WiFi, and the 9 cell battery...

$ acpi -i
Battery 0: Discharging, 49%, 02:02:08 remaining
Battery 0: design capacity 86580 mAh, last full capacity 69930 mAh = 80%

I'm assuming that it has an extra zero on the end, I don't see how it could hold 10x the charge of any other 7000mAh battery people are posting and still only get 4 hours...

Exactly - they went and spouted "Oh, look at us, we disproved (Great Person X)'s work!" when all they really did was use selective reading and ignore the other half the book about the Uncertainty Principle

So they took UltraVNC from a couple of years ago, which includes its own webserver with a Java interface accessible from a browser - and added a conversion program to change the Java into Javascript w/Canvas?

Except ed is pretty much the predecessor to ALL text entry methods, including echo and cat? The only thing I think is older is writing your binary data by placing pebbles on the ground...

Even then, at least Nvidia is getting slightly easier on Ubuntu with their newer hardware - https://launchpad.net/~nvidia-vdpau/+archive/ppa allows you to install the Nvidia binaries and then have them update with the rest of the system.

Yes, it is Ubuntu/Deb only, and it would be better if it were hosted by Nvidia with proper regression testing. Or to just have an open driver to begin with that could be included in the main kernel. But you know what? It's a step (maybe a half a step) in the right direction...

There is currently every reason to just get the fansub instead of buying it...

I started with fansubs because when you were in high school and early college, you don't really have the money - especially not when a box set cost $90 to $120 USD. Yeah, the prices have come down considerably now, but even at 40 to 50 USD, you've got to realize those shows are 5 to 10 years old now.

That brings up another point - delay in releases. I'll watch the fansub, for example Burst Angel / AKA Bakuretsu Tenshi - it came out in 2004, I watched it at least 2 or 3 years ago on fansub - and only about 6 months to a year ago did I see it in the anime magazines "Burst Angel the next big anime?!?" That'd be like for all the people that somehow enjoy watching 24 and American Idol having to wait a year to find out what happens. "Hey guys, did you know Jack Bauer is in exile?" "Dude, that episode was like 2 years ago."

The 3rd big issue is quality. Fansubs are generally made from ripping the show from over the air TV that it airs on in Japan and add the subs. Every time I've tried "doing the right thing" and going and buying the DVD box-set, the DVD version looks like shit compared to what I downloaded a year or 2 ago. And I mean recently, within the past 3 months, where HDTV's are more common than ever. Also, as many other people have said, the English voice actors on dubbed DVD's tend to have retarded voice pitch, no emotion, and FUBAR the timing on the lines

I'll end my rant now, being as my lunch is over and I've gotta get back to work...

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No, no, no... the GF abbreviation is for "Girl Friend 100"